B1113

Near Bramford

The B1113 is a long rural B-road in East Anglia, considerably longer than it originally was.

The southern end of the B1113 is its most recent part. With the upgrading of roads in the Ipswich area, the B1113 has taken over the pre-bypass route of the roads between Ipswich and Stowmarket. It therefore starts on the A1071 to the west of Ipswich, running through Sproughton and bypassing Bramford to the west where it meets the B1067 at the northern end of the village, then travels north along the ex-A1100 as far as Great Blakenham. Just south of Great Blakenham the road becomes D2 then TOTSOs at a signalised T-junction with the mainline between the B1113 to the south and a D2 spur to link the road to the A45 bypass at Claydon, now numbered A14. There is no direct movement for the right turn along the B1113 southbound; traffic must turn left onto the spur then U-turn at Claydon Roundabout. At Great Blakenham, the road TOTSOs again, this time with the mainline between the B1113 north and an unclassified road to Claydon. This junction is where it becomes the pre-bypass A45 and the priority here is a reflection of this.

Continuing north of Great Blakenham, the B1113 passes through Needham Market, where it is the dominant partner in a short multiplex with the B1078 and then gets to Stowmarket, becoming D2 for a short distance before it multiplexes with the A1308 along the inner relief road. The A1308 and A1120 both end at this junction, making it a useless multiplex. It passes between residential and industrial areas before it turns right at a signalised junction to join the B1115 along a relief road which was constructed through a housing estate in the late 2000s to avoid the level crossing near the station. Until this road was constructed, the A1308 multiplex continued one junction further north on the A1308, and that junction was where the B1113 started in 1922. At the end of the relief road, the multiplex ends and the B1113 turns left at a roundabout to head back towards the town centre along the former B1115 route. This route is very indirect and it is more likely you would use other routes along unclassified roads to get between the B1113 and the south side of the town. It TOTSOs again at a mini-roundabout and this junction is where it rejoins the original road. It leaves Stowmarket to the north by going under the A14 with no junction and then going through Old Newton and Finningham to meet the A143 Rickinghall Bypass. Originally, of course, the B1113 went straight into the village and actually ended there in 1922.

In the early 1920s the B1113 was extended and so multiplexes east along the A143 for a short distance (the original route has been bypassed but the multiplex remains and the present route of the B1113 follows the pre-bypass A143 for a short distance) before striking off north once more through Redgrave, where it crosses the infant River Waveney into Norfolk. Soon afterwards, it reaches the A1066 where it disappears.

The 1920s extension included a section of B1113 north of here through Kenninghall and Banham to New Buckenham. However, this section was declassified in the 2000s and so traffic wishing to follow a classified road must deviate via Diss.

The B1113 reappears in New Buckenham on the B1077 and heads northeast through Tacolneston (pronounced Tackle-stun) and Mulbarton before going under the A47 Norwich bypass and ending soon afterwards on the banks of the River Yare on the A140.